A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

Proessor, Gies College of Business

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How Enron used Accounting for Prepaid Commodity Swaps to Delay Bankruptcy for One Decade: The Shadowy Relationships with Big Banks

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, first electronic printing, September 6, 2017, pp. 309-328. Paper printing, April 2019.
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 14 Mar 2016 Last Revised: 09 Nov 2021
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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derivatives, selling fraud, big banks, cash flow, accounting misrepresentation

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An Empirical Analysis of CEO Risk Aversion and the Propensity to Smooth Earnings Volatility

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 22, No. 2, 2007
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 29 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 05 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Income Smoothing, Earnings Volatility, Firm-specific Risk, Management Expense Preference

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Why Do Private Companies Demand Auditing?

Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, Vol. 8, No. 1, 1993
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Prospect Theory Predictions in the Field: Risk Seekers in Settings of Weak Accounting Controls

Forthcoming, Journal of Accounting Literature
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 29 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 30 Mar 2015
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Loss of Control; Gambler’s Martingale; Risk Seeking; Decision-making under Stress; Fraud; Swaps; Options; Futures; Accounting Systems

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CEO Risk Preference and Investing in R&D

Abacus - A Journal of Accounting Finance and Business Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Determinants of R&D; Risk Aversion; Risk Tolerance; Risky Investments; Incentive Pay

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Transforming Big Banks into Bucket Shops: The Impact of Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act & The Commodity Futures Modernization Act

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jul 2017
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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gambling, financial derivatives, transparency, financial concentration

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The Association between Idiosyncratic Risk and Private Information Acquisition

(CAAA) 2008 Annual Conference Paper
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 15 Jan 2008 Last Revised: 24 May 2009
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Analysts forecast dispersion, earnings volatility, forecast uncertainty, nonsystematic risk

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The Jointness of Audit Fees and Demand for MAS: A Self-Selection Analysis

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 6, No. 2, 1990
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Audit Pricing, consulting fees, spillover effects, the Heckman method

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Fair Value Accounting and Stewardship

Accounting Perspectives, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2009
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Fair value accounting; Stewardship; Accountability

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The Effect of Aggregating Accounting Reports on the Quality of the Lending Decision: An Empirical Investigation

Journal of Accounting Research, 1973
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 21 Jul 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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aggregation, information loss, loan officers, cost of debt, income statement

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Reforming Corporate Governance Post Enron: Shareholders’ Board of Trustees and the Auditor

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 21, No. 1, 2002
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 18 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Auditing, Fraud, Enron, Stockholders rights

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Factors Limiting Behavioral Research in Accounting

Behavioral Research in Accounting, Vol. 6, No. supp, 1994
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 18 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Field studies, experiments, functional fixation, demand characteristics

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Failing Faithful Representations of Financial Statements: Issues in Reporting Financial Instruments

Abdel-Khalik, A. Rashad, Failing Faithful Representations of Financial Statements: Issues in Reporting Financial Instruments (October 2, 2019).
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 17 Apr 2019 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2020
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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OTC Derivatives; Hypothetical Derivatives; Embedded Derivatives; CVA and DVA

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The Entropy Law, Accounting Data, and Relevance to Decision-Making

Accounting Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, 1974
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 04 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Entropy, aggregation, linformation, communication, experiment in lending

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Expectations Data and the Predictive Value of Interim Reporting

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 16, No. 1, 1978
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 05 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and Jose Espejo
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and Duke University
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Forecasting, prediction errors, recursive, quarterly reporting

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Returns to Informational Advantages: The Case of Analysts' Forecast Revisions

Accounting Review, Vol. 57, No. 4, 1982
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 05 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and Bipin B. Ajinkya
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and University of Florida - Fisher School of Accounting
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earnings forecast, forecast revision, private information, accuracy

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Understanding Accounting Changes in an Efficient Market: Evidence of Differential Reaction

Accounting Review, Vol. 53, No. 4, 1978
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 04 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and James C. McKeown
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and Pennsylvania State University
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LIFO-FIFO, accounting changes, cash flow effects, earnings effects, earnings growth

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The Information Environment of China's A and B Shares: Can We Make Sense of the Numbers?

International Journal of Accounting, Vol. 34, No. 4, 1999
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 05 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik, Kie Ann Wong and Annie Wu
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy, National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Accounting and National Chengchi University (NCCU)
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Emerging markets; Information content; Market segmentation; Chinese market segmentation

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Specification Problems with Information Content of Earnings: Revisions and Rationality of Expectations and Self-Selection Bias

Contemporary Accounting Research, Vol. 7, No. 1, 1990
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 17 May 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Self-Sorting, Incentive Compensation and Human-Capital Assets

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Self-Sorting, Incentive Compensation and Human-Capital Assets

European Accounting Review Vol. 12, No. 4, 2003
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Job Search, labor markets, compensation, matching skills and pay

Self-Sorting, Incentive Compensation, and Human-Capital Assets

Posted: 20 Jan 2003
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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Managerial Skills, Intangibles, Incentive Compensation, Human Capital, Recognition

Self-Sorting, Incentive Compensation, and Human-Capital Assets

European Accounting Review, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2003
Posted: 10 Nov 2003
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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managerial skills, intangibles, incentive compensation, human capital, accounting recognition

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Incentives for Accruing Costs and Efficiency in Regulated Monopolies Subject to Roe Constraint

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 26, Supplement, 1988
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Do Sustainability-Linked Notes have Embedded Derivatives?

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Sep 2023
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Sustainability, Step-up, Step-down, Environment, Social, Carbon Emission

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Hierarchies and Size: A Problem of Identification.

Organization Studies , Volume 9, No 2, pp. 237-251 (1988)
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 18 Jun 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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Complexity, chain of command, span of control

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The Computer Held Hostage--Not the Right Road to Tenure

Issues in Accounting Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1986
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 03 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy
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tenure, research methods, empirical analysis, spurious relationship, irrelevant variables

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BRAZEN: Big Banks, Swap Mania, and the Fallout (Preface)

BRAZEN: Big Banks, Swap Mania, and the Fallout (2019); ISBN: 978-9811203121
Posted: 17 Apr 2019
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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interest rate swaps, deception, wealth transfers

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Information Choice and Utilization in an Experiment on Default Prediction

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1980
Posted: 05 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and Kamal El-Sheshai
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and Independent

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information cues, prediction, financial ratios, loans

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The Effect of LIFO-Switching and Firm Ownership on Executives' Pay

Journal of Accounting Research, Vol. 23, No. 2, 1985
Posted: 17 May 2014 Last Revised: 03 May 2016
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy

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Agency Theory; Accounting Methods' Changes; Compensation; Cash Flow vs. Accrual

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Growth in Financial Derivatives: The Public Policy and Accounting Incentives

Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Vol. 34, No. 3, 2015
Posted: 11 May 2014 Last Revised: 27 Jul 2015
A. Rashad Abdel-Khalik and Po-Chang Chen
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Accountancy and Miami University of Ohio - Richard T. Farmer School of Business Administration

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derivatives, public policy, FAS 133, hedge accounting